This beautifully amazing clip is from Russia’s version of “America’s Got Talent” called, simply, “Talent.” And like all these shows, it starts out with hilariously untalented people with too much confidence making complete asses of themselves. But where the Russian version really excels is with insanely dangerous stunts, like the old “shoot the arrow off the head” number these silly bastards try – and FAIL.

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In this, our global economy, everything is a matter of perspective.

At this moment, there are two distinct groups of people looking at each other wonder how the F*%K they got themselves into this situation, and moreover – how are they going to get out. Their situations are grave, and the future of their lives and livelihoods hang in the balance.

As if fate had deemed it necessary to pull these polar opposites together, the world now finds US Investment Bankers and Somali Pirates in the same “boat” – so to speak.

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To begin, it doesn’t matter how we got where we are. I really don’t care how often Obama wants to talk about who is to blame, but we are here now, we are screwed and we have to get out. YES, we know, McCain was not voted Miss Congeniality…we heard. And yes, no one really knows how to pronounce Ahmadinejad – we got it.

The sad part is, we sat around COED office drinking and watching the debate – and when it was done, we started talking and it was quite obvious that we were all watching different debates.

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Last summer, Ben Gordon was offered a 5-year, $50M contract extension from the Chicago Bulls but whined that as the team’s leading scorer, that wasn’t enough.  Now its only a few weeks from camp and Gordon’s contract status is still in limbo.  He still thinks he deserves something similar to the $71M deal the Bulls recently gave to Luol Deng, but the Bulls disagree.

As a restricted free agent, his options are limited.  He can sign an offer sheet with another team – which the Bulls can match – but no one with ample cap space remaining (read: Memphis Grizzlies) is willing to pony up for his services.  Or he can force a sign-and-trade, but again, no one wants to pay him a penny more than the Bulls already offered and he rejected.  It appears his contract demands are too absurd for any NBA team to consider for the streaky combo guard from UConn. (more…)

We all know that Russia has been f**king up in the last few months. This ridiculous business with Georgia during the Olympics (pretty convenient timing if you ask me), the angry comments made towards the NATO countries while discussing the cease fire and paranoia about anti-missile defenses in ex-soviet States has the whole country giving off a ‘mad scientist/GI JOE villain’ vibe.

All of that aside, there is one thing that cannot be denied. Russian Prime Minister Vladdy Putin is one bad mother. He likes to fly in fighter jets, he’s a judo black belt, loves to fish shirtless and now he’s into hunting Siberian Tigers. What’s that, you say? Those are endangered? No worries, Vlad is only hunting them to aid in the tranq/tag/release effort to protect these animals. He has, apparently, found the perfect way to attract women. Manly sensitivity. (more…)

Georgian TV Reporter Shot By Sniper – Watch more free videos

Reporting from war-torn Georgia has its down sides. Namely, you get shot at while you’re doing the freakin’ news. I’m not saying we’re pu**ies or anything, but this is one of the reasons it’s better to run a website than do any actual journalism.

As we can see from the picture above, there is plenty more to be excited about than just soccer in this year’s Euro2008. The diehard female supporters of this years Euro2008 teams are just one more reason why we’ve been glued to the TV for every game.

Check out the girls from yesterday’s Euro2008 matches too!

After the jump check out today’s match-ups and see the teams’ girls. (more…)

No, this is not a PR ploy by the WNBA to put women’s basketball back on the American tongue… but the sports world is a-buzz today with reports that American born, point guard Becky Hammon has opted to play for the Russian National Basketball team in the 2008 Olympic Games.

From Newsday:

That’s right. Becky Hammon, the WNBA point guard from America’s heartland, is going to march into National Stadium in Beijing under a Russian flag, wearing a Russian uniform. And perhaps the biggest irony of all is that Russia, a country that for years represented the antithesis of a free market, bought her services – fast tracking her to Russian citizenship after she signed a four-year contract for more than $2 million to play for CSKA, a Russian professional team, last winter.

If we could only talk the Ruskies into taking Kobe…

Check out Becky Hammon’s photo gallery after the jump. (more…)

Seventeen-year-old Arthur Mkoyan plans on studying medicine at California State. And as valedictorian, with a “grade-point average above 4.0″ at Bullard High School in Fresno, California, that should be no problem. Problem is, he’s being deported.

No, he’s not Mexican. He’s Armenian. According to CNN, before coming to the Untied States, his father reported being asked to register stolen vehicles at the Armenian DMV, and he was told to “not worry about it” by the chief of the DMV. In the months and years that followed, he was attacked and harassed repeatedly, just for being an honest man, and his family feared for their lives. (more…)